Obama was also critical of the high percentage of African-American children in the US who are born either outside marriage or been brought up in single parent families, he was referred to as an "uncle tom" by some leading African american politicians at the time. Here's a quote of his as regards children been brought up in single parent families in America from 2008. "We know the statistics - that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.
“They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it."
Maybe couples in poorer areas are likely to have kids in their relationship quite early before their relationship is properly stable, I was reading some stat that in the 2006 census in one electoral district in Ballymun over 50% of marriages end up in divorce.
David Cameron last year stated that marriage has collpased as an institution in poorer areas in Britain, he stated that it has largely become a middle class institution.
I would say if the kids come from middle class backgrounds in a single parent household then they could do very well acdemically especially if the father plays a vital role in their kids education, also they may have better support from extended family than say kids who are been brought up in council/local authority housing.
Just another question for people are couples cohabitating more likely to split up than couples who are married?
Now I know as many people on this site can testify if couples get married they are going to stay married forever but I'm personally of the opinion that cohabiting couples are more likely to split up than married couples.
And fair play to yourself and your kids mum, I've seen some of your posts on trying to get access to your kid and because of the role that you intend and will doubtless play in your kids life he will turn out fine.
My point is that particularly in working class areas in Ireland and the UK there are kids who are more likely to drift into anti social behaviour and possibly crime if they don't have a dad who plays an assertive role in their kids life.
I'm a single parent myself with a 11 year old son, I've heard a few times in surveys etc that children who are brought up in single parent households due to their parents spliting up (not including the death of a prent) the kids are more likely to suffer from behavioural, social and academic underachievement than kids brought up in the traditional 2 parent family, I know my son is no angel but he does well at school and is heavily involved in soccer and GAA in particular.
Is it true that kids are statistically more likely to be less well behaved, underachieve academically and have less social skills been brought up in a single parent family than kids in a traditional 2 parent family, I just want to hear people's views.
What discount did you get off the council to get that sort of mortgage, I heard now that council tenanst as of last January can buy their council house off the council at 45% below the market rate provided they've been living there for 15 years.
I agree people's mindsets have to change for instance there are still a lot of people who believe you can spend your way out of recession, in the late 80's it was argued that our politicians had to stop been populist as regards excessive public spending, did they learn their lessons, no they did not, thats why I advocate stringent policies on public spending as a way of changing people's mindsets that a beliefe that "a euro earned is a euro saved" so that money is put aside for a rainy day.
A lot of Irish people doon't tend to think of the possible consequences of the decisions of their actions, thats what I meant when is said Irish perople were irrational, the auld saying "think before you leap" should always apply when making decisions.
And the likes of Michael Lowry get reelected continuously on the 1st count, not exactly accountability.
If we are to be fit to govern the public finances then there must be very tight controls on future public spending increases, for instance it should be illegal to run a budget deficit and above inflation increases in public spending should be banned.
The irish central bank and the financial regulators office would have been mainly responsible for lending as regardsd mortgage eligibility and loans for businesses, they didn;t seem to be too bothered when people were taking out mortgages 10 times their salaries.
1) Our electoral system breeds the worst aspects of parish pump localised politics. 2) Irish people like been told what they WANT to hear from politicians not what they NEED to hear. 3) Irish people generally prefer to vote for the local pisshead over someone who has integrity and sound policies. 4) Irish people are irrational by nature look at the property madness as a prime example.
At least people in Munster had some cop on with property taxes, water charges coming in in the next few years, property prices still have a lot further to fall, house prices need to fall 80-85% from peak levels as the excesses of the celtic tiger property madness need to be cleansed out of the system.
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Kids brought up in single parent households
Obama was also critical of the high percentage of African-American children in the US who are born either outside marriage or been brought up in single parent families, he was referred to as an "uncle tom" by some leading African american politicians at the time. Here's a quote of his as regards children been brought up in single parent families in America from 2008. "We know the statistics - that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.“They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it."